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| Impossibility of Performance | A. Death or illness that prevents the performance of a personal service contract, B. destruction of the exact subject matter or means of performance. C. Illegality, or situations in which the performance of a contract becomes illegal. |
| Discharge by Operation of Law | A. Wrongful alteration, statute of limitations runs out, bankruptcy laws discharging a debtors obligations. |
| Death or illness in a personal service contract | The death or illness of a party to a contract many be an excuse for nonperformance only if a contract requires the personal service of the person who has died or become ill making the contract impossible to perform. |
| Destruction of the exact subject matter | If the subject matter that is essential to the performance of a contract is destroyed through no fault of either party, the contract is discharged. |
| Illegality | Performance of the contract becomes illegal making it impossible to perform |
| Wrongful alteration | Altering or changing a contract after it has been agreed upon. This canlead to a discharge by operation of law. |
| statute of limitations | If you wait longer than 4 years (in most states) , you may no longer bring a lawsuit for breach of contract after that time period has run out. The contract will be discharged by operation of law. |
| bankruptcy | These laws set procedures for discharging some of a debtor's obligations if they are hopelessly in debt and cannot pay their debts as become due. Thes edebts are discharged by operation of law. |
